To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.